GMR Group drives off Ahmedabad highway

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Timsy Jaipuria: New Delhi, Dec 28 2012, 01:57 IST

on NHAI called “Sub-prime highways”.

Potholes

* NHAI says it has been trying to get clearances

* Securing green nods was NHAI’s job, as per contract

* Authority yet to notify toll rates for the highway

* GMR reportedly brought R800-850 cr for project

* NHAI has time up to Jan 4 to reply to the notice

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Bhaskar Sen | 31-Dec-2012Reply | Forward

It is disheartening that a dream project of huge network of road building in our country has suffered a setback for, the main participant GMR Group has given notice to the NHAI for withdrawal for want of NHAI's obtaining environment clearance from the government for one of the tunnels that needed to be built for the project related conversion of 4-lane national highway into 6-lane one for the stretch Kishangarh in Rajasthan to Ahmedabad via Udaipur. Further it has been reported by the World Bank's Institutional Integrity Unit in its report dated March 1, 2012 that private Indian contractors have paid bribes, gifts and gold coins to local officials in district administration and the NHAI consultants for Lucknow-Mujaffarpur national highway project during the period 2005-2008. That CBI has started an investigation in the matter is a welcome step in this regard. However it is obvious that such huge projects must suffer badly from tremendous financial loss to government exchequer due to delay in timely completion, and the additional onus involving the project has to be directly or indirectly borne by the taxpaying citizens of the country.